SB Johnny and Wikiversity Options

[Ottava]

So SB Johnny decided to block me for one week on Wikiversity just because. Wonderful stuff. He claimed I was being disruptive for complaining that Abd was pretending to check recent changes while not actually doing that.

If you haven't noticed, Abd has been selectively welcoming people who are disruptive and they all happened to vote in support of him. They also say he has been doing a good job at recent changes.

Anyone can see from my contrbs that I had to go through and fix a lot. It isn't a coincidence. SB Johnny claims I have done nothing since coming back, but that is pure bs. I love how Wikiversity is making Wikipedia look far better in terms of logical practices.

[EricBarbour]

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[SB_Johnny]

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It's almost a shame that Jimmy and the WMF cronies didn't pay more attention to WV, because it's going to be hard to blame its collapse on them. Unless of course their not paying attention was the root of the problem. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/huh.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ermm.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif)

[EricBarbour]

It's almost a shame that Jimmy and the WMF cronies didn't pay more attention to WV, because it's going to be hard to blame its collapse on them. Unless of course their not paying attention was the root of the problem. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/huh.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ermm.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif)

That's yet another untold WMF story.

Find out how WV started and you'd have something to really talk about, I suspect.
You will probably find a mountain of skeletons in that dark cave of madness.
(And it will have nothing to do with either Abd or Ottava, protestations notwithstanding.)

This seems to sum it up:

However, it is easier to construct individual wiki textbooks using the Wikipedia method of "article construction". This has led to such textbooks as How to solve the Rubik's Cube, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and JAGS-2 but not a Neuroscience textbook.

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[Adrignola]

This seems to sum it up:

However, it is easier to construct individual wiki textbooks using the Wikipedia method of "article construction". This has led to such textbooks as How to solve the Rubik's Cube, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and JAGS-2 but not a Neuroscience textbook.

Hmmm. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Neuroscience

[thekohser]

This seems to sum it up:

However, it is easier to construct individual wiki textbooks using the Wikipedia method of "article construction". This has led to such textbooks as How to solve the Rubik's Cube, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and JAGS-2 but not a Neuroscience textbook.

Hmmm. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Neuroscience

"Hmmm" is right. Here's an example of a chapter in that "textbook" -- a chapter that you yourself most recently edited. Do you really think a short list of bullet point phrases constitutes a "textbook"?

[Detective]

Here's an example of a chapter in that "textbook" -- a chapter that you yourself most recently edited. Do you really think a short list of bullet point phrases constitutes a "textbook"?

To be fair to Adrignola, that isn't and doesn't purport to be a chapter. It's a contents list, so of course it's just a list. Nor does it consist of bullet point phrases; it's a list of links to chapters of the book. Where there might be a valid criticism is that nine of the 11 links are currently still red. Clearly, that section at least of the book needs a lot more work. Still, there is a fair amount of material there, and what there is seems good. There is far worse stuff on Wikibooks (and of course on just about any WMF site I've looked at).

[jayvdb]

Here's an example of a chapter in that "textbook" -- a chapter that you yourself most recently edited. Do you really think a short list of bullet point phrases constitutes a "textbook"?

To be fair to Adrignola, that isn't and doesn't purport to be a chapter. It's a contents list, so of course it's just a list. Nor does it consist of bullet point phrases; it's a list of links to chapters of the book. Where there might be a valid criticism is that nine of the 11 links are currently still red. Clearly, that section at least of the book needs a lot more work. Still, there is a fair amount of material there, and what there is seems good. There is far worse stuff on Wikibooks (and of course on just about any WMF site I've looked at).

The base of the textbook is the page "Neuroscience", and all of the subpages(chapters) can be seen here. Looks like 20+ pages so far, and a long way to go.